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Facilitated by Leisa Shelton
FIELD TRIP: Mapping forgotten landscapes of Linton
SAT 10 may, 11.00AM - 3.00PM
MINIBUS IS FULLY BOOKED. PATRONS CAN STILL BOOK AND INDEPENDANTLY TRAVEL TO LOCATION
LUNCH: Bring a share plate for the shared meal session
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Field Trip is a series of encounters where participants join presenting artists on location, often traveling together from Platform Arts as a meeting point. It forges collaborative intergenerational connections, where artists share their site-based practice and speak to the importance of place in their work and self.
Platform Arts acknowledges that Field Trip takes place on the unceded lands of the Wadawurrung people of the Kulin Nation. We recognise their language, art and culture, and acknowledge their people as the first artists and Custodians of this land. We pay our respects to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and extend these respects to all First Nations people and their Elders, past, present and emerging.
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As this is a field trip, ensure that you bring anything you might need during this time. If you are catching the bus from Platform Arts, you will need to stay the duration of the field trip in order to catch the bus back with the group.
If you have any accessibility concerns please contact our team: curator@platformarts.org.au
This field trip invites you to explore place based, responsive project design and consider the values and intentions that underpin community led processes.
Mapping Forgotten Food Forests is a current project in development with artist, curator, facilitator Leisa Shelton.
The form of the project has developed over time, through daily walking of the landscape, conversations over fences about the large areas of untended apples, plums, elderberry, elder flower and medicinal grasses spread all across the public land of Linton and a curiosity about the stories and histories of those who walked and planted this landscape before her.
During the workshop we will walk, share food and explore the ways projects can ‘come to us’ and be created through processes of observation, deep listening and responsive practice.
This field trip has been curated into the program by Writhe Collective.
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Please arrive at Platform Arts at 9.30AM
Bus departs shortly after
Bus trip: 1.5hrs
Arrive in Linton at 11.00AM
Walking in the local landscape of Linton:11.00AM - 1.00PM
Lunch and final session: 1.00PM-3.00PM
Arrive back at Platform Arts at 4.30PM
What to bring:We ask that participants bring a shared plate of food to contribute to the lunch on the day
Sturdy shoes, suited for walking
Hat
Sunscreen
Rain coat in case of weather changes
Water
Any personal items or medications you might need
Pen and paper
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Leisa Shelton is a performance artist, maker and curator whose practice foregrounds collaboration and advocacy for new Australian transdisciplinary work. Her practice concentrates on developing new frames for the presentation of performance alongside greater sustainability within arts practice.
In 2008, Shelton founded Fragment31, a multidisciplinary collective focusing on contemporary performance practice. Shelton has directed and collaborated on productions with Arts House & Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne; Performance Space, Sydney Theatre Co & Belvoir St, Sydney. She led the Postgraduate course in Performance Making (Animateuring) at Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne (2008–13) and was guest artist at Taipei National University of the Arts (2012); Theatre Training and Practice, Singapore (2004); and DasArts, Amsterdam, Netherlands (2008). She currently teaches independently across Australia and lectures within the Centre for Cultural Partnerships, VCA Melbourne. In 2014, Shelton is a guest collaborator with Century Contemporary Dance Co. Taipei, Taiwan, and co-curator of Venice International Performance Week 2014, Italy.
This project has been supported by a City of Greater Geelong Community Grant.
